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go steady

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  1. Date one person exclusively, as in Parents often don't approve of their children's decision to go steady. This usage may be obsolescent. [Slang; c. 1900] Also see go together, def. 2; go with, def. 1.

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She agrees to go steady with a boy, someone she, in accordance with local custom, completely ignores in school.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2020

"I knew I had to go steady and think smart for a change, because I didn't do that in London last year."

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2016

Before their second date, he delivered what she calls “a twenty-five-minute monologue on why we should go steady, with a full intellectual decision tree in anticipation of my own decision tree.”

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2015

The proper course of courtship was to go steady, become pinned, then engaged.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2010

I mean, sure, we had fusses—everybody does, all the kids that go steady.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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